ritz wrote:
I am a level 50 Ranger in a high content raiding guild that has killed Darathar. In my experiences rangers are a worthless class that had many broken and unbalanced skills. To start rangers need to use crushing arrows in raids because almost all raid mobs are resistant to piercing or slashing. And to use decent arrows it costs tons of money to keep up in demand because they need to be crafted with the new fuel. Also the ranger was said to be fixed skill wise in the last big patch? Steady aim was the target to make the bow skill buff 15 mins... good job making tier 3 rangers better because the tier 5 upgrade focus fire is still on a 36 sec duration so rangers still are bad. Also the patch notes said longshank would now stealth the ranger? too bad it does not stealth the ranger lol would be nice if you did what you said you would do. Also the bow snare leg shot which says its a 35% slow on a 1:12 duration does not even work so they cant snare either. The skills are totally unblanaced and/or broken. There are no master bow drops from raids and what do you know? 50%+ of my attacks are bow so im even more worthless compared to other melee classes that gets weapon upgrades. The timers vs. the damage on the bow skills especially like the lvl 50 Storm of Arrows is insane. 5 minute recast? on 1 single skill that is not even that good thats just stupid. Increasing the timers would also just make the ranger use more arrows and waste more money since it is so exspensive to craft with the new Tier 5 fuel. So in the end the skills need to be balanced and fixed because until they are the ranger is one of the most worthless classes to waste your EQ2 career with as it stands. GG SoE I was always confident you had the power to screw up terribly even though it took you 3-4 exspansions to get rangers right in EQ Live.
And here is yet another uber construction my life is going down the toilet post from a disgruntled level 50 Ranger. instead of contributing to the ongoing threads about our class balancing issues, come in here and basically call the game designers garbage, then expect to fixed. In one word.....BRILLIANT!!!
There are about 400 threads in here about the same issues. The problem is too many people come to the boards for the first time jsut to vent and call the devs pieces of crap, that the quality posts outlining our issues, offer sounds suggestions, other then "FIX IT NOW!!". Are pushed out of the way, down to the bottom, by these POS posts.
People, come in here and post with a cool head, and make quality posts outlining your issue. Just just flame and vent, it has gotten us nowhere to date.
Definition of insanity :
An attempt to accomplish a task in the exact same manner, over and over again..........and expect different results